Matthew 9:6 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins..." (then he said to the paralytic), "Get up, and take up your mat, and go up to your house." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 11:20 Then he went on to say hard things to the towns where most of his works of power were done, because they had not been turned from their sins. (BBE)

Matthew 12:41 The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: because they were turned from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; and now a greater than Jonah is here. (BBE)

Matthew 18:15 "If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. (WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 18:21 Then Peter having come near to him, said, 'Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him -- till seven times?' (See NIV)

Matthew 21:32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him. (BBE)

Matthew 26:28 for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 1:4 John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 1:5 All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 2:9 Which is easier, to tell the paralytic,'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say,'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?' (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 2:10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" -he said to the paralytic- (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 3:28 Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 4:12 that'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'" (WEB KJV WBS YLT)

Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, (WEB)

Mark 7:22 The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts: (BBE)

Mark 11:25 And whenever you make a prayer, let there be forgiveness in your hearts, if you have anything against anyone; so that you may have forgiveness for your sins from your Father who is in heaven. (BBE NIV)

Luke 1:77 to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 3:3 He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 5:24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" (he said to the paralyzed man), "I tell you, arise, and take up your cot, and go to your house." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 5:32 I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins. (BBE)

Luke 7:47 Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 7:49 Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?" (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 10:13 A curse is on you, Chorazin! A curse is on you, Beth-saida! For if such works of power had been done in Tyre and Sidon as have been done in you, they would have been turned from their sins, in days gone by, seated in the dust. (BBE)

Luke 11:4 Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.'" (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 11:32 The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: for they were turned away from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; but now something greater than Jonah is here. (BBE)

Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 3:19 "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 3:26 To you, first, God sent his servant, blessing you by turning every one of you from his sins. (BBE)

Acts 5:31 God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 10:43 All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 13:38 Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 19:18 And a number of those who had faith came and made a public statement of their sins and all their acts. (BBE)

Acts 22:16 Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.' (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 26:18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.' (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 2:2 and we know that God's judgement against those who commit such sins is in accordance with the truth. (WEY)

Romans 4:25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification. (See NIV)

Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come. (WEB RSV)

Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. (KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Romans 11:27 This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. (WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 11:27 Whoever, therefore, in an unworthy manner, eats the bread or drinks from the cup of the Lord sins against the body and blood of the Lord. (WEY)

1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 15:17 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Corinthians 5:19 That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace. (BBE NIV)

2 Corinthians 13:2 Those who cling to their old sins, and indeed all of you, I have forewarned and still forewarn (as I did on my second visit when present, so I do now, though absent) (WEY)

Galatians 1:4 who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father- (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; (KJV BBE WBS NIV)

Ephesians 2:1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) (KJV BBE WBS)

Ephesians 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming upon the disobedient. (WEY)

Colossians 2:11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; (WEB KJV WBS YLT)

Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; (KJV BBE WBS NIV)

Colossians 3:6 It is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming, (WEY)

1 Thessalonians 2:16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Thessalonians 4:6 And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness. (See NIV)

2 Timothy 3:6 For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Titus 3:11 knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned. (WEB DBY)

Hebrews 1:3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 2:17 Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 5:1 For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 5:3 Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 7:27 who doesn't need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more." (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 9:7 But into the second, the High Priest goes only on one day of the year, and goes alone, taking with him blood, which he offers on his own behalf and on account of the sins which the people have ignorantly committed. (WEY NAS NIV)

Hebrews 9:15 And because of this He is the negotiator of a new Covenant, in order that, since a life has been given in atonement for the offences committed under the first Covenant, those who have been called may receive the eternal inheritance which has been promised to them. (See NIV)

Hebrews 9:22 Indeed we may almost say that in obedience to the Law everything is sprinkled with blood, and that apart from the outpouring of blood there is no remission of sins. (WEY RSV)

Hebrews 9:28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 10:2 Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins? (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Sins (351 Occurrences)... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia REMISSION OF SINS. ...Sins are remitted when the offender is treated as though the offense had never been committed. .../s/sins.htm - 38k

Remission (18 Occurrences)... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. REMISSION OF SINS. ...Sins are remitted when the offender is treated as though the offense had never been committed. .../r/remission.htm - 13k

Expiation (9 Occurrences)... substitute. Expiation is made for our sins when they are punished not in ourselves but in another who consents to stand in our room. .../e/expiation.htm - 11k

Sacrifices (186 Occurrences)... 5:1 For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. .../s/sacrifices.htm - 39k

Palsy (12 Occurrences)... to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. .../p/palsy.htm - 12k

Propitiation (4 Occurrences)... propitiation. In 1 John 2:2; 4:10, Christ is called the "propitiation for oursins." Here a different Greek word is used (hilasmos). Christ .../p/propitiation.htm - 15k

Commits (39 Occurrences)... 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. .../c/commits.htm - 18k

4266. proginomai -- to happen before... This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins (4266 ); 26 for the demonstration, I say, of His .../greek/4266.htm - 7k

re-mish'-un (aphesis, paresis): The two Greek words, of which the latter occurs only in Romans 3:25, were translated by the same English word in the King James Version. In the Revised Version (British and American), paresis is translation "passing over." It is contrasted with the other term as pretermission with remission. Remission is exemption from the consequences of an offense, forgiveness; pretermission is the suspension of the penalty (Philippi, Ellicott, Trench (Synonyms, XXXIII), Weiss; compare Acts 17:30). Cremer (Lexicon of N T Gr) regards the meaning of the two words as identical, except that the one refers to the Old Testament and the other to the New Testament. Sins are remitted when the offender is treated as though the offense had never been committed. Remission is restricted to the penalty, while forgiveness refers more particularly to the person, although it may be used also of the sin itself. Remission also is used of offenses against God's law; forgiveness, against either divine or human law.

re-ten'-shun, (krateo, "to lay fast hold of" (John 20:23)): The opposite of "the remission of sins." Where there was no evidence of repentance and faith, the community of believers were unauthorized to give assurance of forgiveness, and, therefore, could only warn that the guilt of sin was retained, and that the sinner remained beneath God's judgment.

While such retention has its place in connection with all preaching of the gospel, since the offers of grace are conditional, it is especially exercised, like the absolution, in the personal dealing of a pastor with a communicant, preparatory to the reception of the Lord's Supper. As the absolution is properly an assurance of individual forgiveness, so the retention is an assurance of individual non-forgiveness. That the retention is exercised by the ministry, not as an order, but as the representatives of the congregation of believers to which Christ gave the power of the keys, is shown by Alford, Greek Testament, on above passage. See also Melanchthon, Appendix to the "Schmalkald Articles."